Does anyone have a sample of one of their emails? I’m composing a brief nastygram and would like to get my eyes on one before finishing up.
Thanks, Charles > On Dec 15, 2021, at 11:39 AM, Bill Cole > <sausers-20150...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > > There has recently been a spate of odd spams to harvested addresses asking > hypothetical questions about domains' privacy practices. It turns out this is > a grad student enrolling human subjects in a study without informed > consent... The explanation is at > https://measurement.cs.princeton.edu/privacystudy/ and there is a list of > domains there which were created to run this maldesigned study. > > Many of the early batch compounded the consent problem with outright fraud, > claiming to be from people who do not exist. > > I am curious about what the SA user world thinks of such domains. My personal > opinion is that the grad student, his faculty advisors, and his IRB should > all be forced to find new careers and the domains should have a null CNAME at > the root forever. It appears that URIBL, SURBL, and Spamhaus DBL have all > noticed the domains unflatteringly, which I suppose constitutes a more > balanced consequence... > > A customer has expressed mild dismay at the concept that a fine research > institution should be "punished for doing research." I'm less attached to > Princeton than my NJ-based customer and (having worked in a NIH-funded lab) > less idolizing of the Ivory Tower in general. I have no difficulty explaining > my position, but I am rather surprised that I need to in 2021. Am I missing > something special that makes such research spam somehow not spam? > > -- > Bill Cole > b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Not Currently Available For Hire
